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ejaculate

Syllables: eja·cu·late/ɪˈdʒæk.jʊ.leɪt/US/ɪˈd͡ʒæk.jə.leɪt/

ejaculate verb: to eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.

Verb

ejaculate (third-person singular simple present ejaculates, present participle ejaculating, simple past and past participle ejaculated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
    • The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This ſtrong, tho' ſubtile Force, thro' all the Parts: / Its active Rays ejaculated thence, / Irradiate all the wide Circumference.1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God. In Seven Books, book I, London: Printed for S. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain...
    Synonyms:
    eject, throw out
  2. (dated, intransitive) To say abruptly.
    • Vigors almost bounded on the pavement at the mention of the name; and he ejaculated, "It is he of whom I am in search ! But why do you ask? Is it possible that—"1857, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, The Empress Eugenie's Boudoir, London: Published, for the proprietor, by John Dicks, No. 7, Wellington Street North, Strand, page 52
    • Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses. "Aiyah!" she ejaculated.1892–1893, Cao Xueqin, translated by H. Bencraft Joly, Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    blurt out
  3. (transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
    • The spermatophores begin to ejaculate immediately after leaving the penis and the whole process is completed in a very few seconds. Pulling the filament attached to the ejaculatory end of a spermatophore is all that is needed to start its ejaculation.1910 June 20, Gilman A. Drew, “Sexual Activities of the Squid, Loligo pealii (Les.). I. Copulation, Egg-laying and Fertilization”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 22, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa....
  4. (intransitive, specifically, transitive) Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.
    • Men can ejaculate between 0.1 and 10 milliliters of semen on average.
    • With a groan, he ejaculated on his abdomen.
  5. (rare, transitive) To sexually stimulate (someone) so that they eject fluid from the urethra.
    • Porn teaches men that sex is a completely selfish act, where the other party has no humanity, she only exists to ejaculate him. The only pleasure she has is in pleasuring him.1997 February 4, NoDoubt, “Women and Porn”, in soc.feminism (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    milk

Noun

UK/ɪˈdʒæk.jʊ.lət/US/ɪˈd͡ʒæk.jə.lət/

ejaculate (countable and uncountable, plural ejaculates)

  1. Fluid or some other substance ejected or suddenly thrown from a duct or other body structure; specifically, semen or vaginal fluid ejected by a human being or other mammal during an ejaculation.
    • If semen from two ejaculates obtained from one bull is mixed, and the conception rate for the mixed sample is compared with that obtained by the use of the two ejaculates independently, any tendency for the mixed sample's conception rate to be closer to that of either of the two individual...1971 August, K. L. Macmillan with J. D. Watson, “The Effect on Conception Rate of Mixing Semen from First and Second Ejaculates”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 14, number 3...
    • The ejaculate usually spurts out as the prostate gland and surrounding muscles, as well as those at the base of the penis, contract at orgasm. In young males, the force of the spurt can be strong enough for the ejaculate to hit the upper chest; in older males, it may roll out or go an inch or two...1994, Vern L. Bullough with Bonnie Bullough, Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia [Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 685], New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, page 181

ejaculate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

ejaculate in Hindi

to eject semen or vaginal fluid
वीर्य स्खलन vīrya skhalan

ejaculate in Tamil

கத்து, வெளித்தள்ளு, வெளித்தள்ளுதல்

ejaculate in Marathi

to eject semen or vaginal fluid
स्खलन करणे skhalan karṇe

ejaculate in Urdu

منی کا خارج ہونا
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ejaculate in Bengali
বীর্যপাত birjopat
ejaculate in Malayalam
പെട്ടെന്നു വിളിച്ചുപറയുക, ബഹിർഗമിപ്പിക്കുക, വിസർജ്ജിക്കുക
ejaculate in Kannada
ಚಿಮ್ಮು, ಬೊಬ್ಬಿರಿ
ejaculate in Nepali
छोल्नु cholnu
ejaculate in Tagalog
labasan, tamod
ejaculate in Arabic
قَذَفَ الْمَنْي qaḏafa al-many
ejaculate in Indonesian
ejakulat
ejaculate in Vietnamese
xuất tinh, phóng tinh
ejaculate in Myanmar
သုက်လွှတ် sukhlwat

Examples of ejaculate in a sentence

  • "We're not going to use magic?" Ron ejaculated loudly.2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:
  • [I]n controlled studies some men have been observed to ejaculate but not have orgasm or have orgasm but are unable to ejaculate.1994, Vern L. Bullough with Bonnie Bullough, Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia [Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 685], New York...
  • The knowledge that some women ejaculate at the moment of orgasm was, like many other important aspects of sexuality, buried by Puritanism and patriarchy.2003, Deborah Sundahl, “Foreword”, in Female Ejaculation and the G-spot, Alameda, Calif.: Hunter House Publishers, →ISBN, page ix:
  • Bulls, rams and boars have the biggest testes among the larger domestic animals, so they would be expected to produce and ejaculate more sperms than others with smaller testes.2012, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page...

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Synonyms of ejaculate

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Forms of ejaculate

Verb
third-person singular presentejaculates
present participleejaculating
past participleejaculated
pastejaculated
Noun
pluralejaculates

Past tense of ejaculate: ejaculated

Origin of ejaculate

Borrowed from Latin ēiaculātus, perfect active participle of ēiaculor (“to hurl, shoot out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from ē (“out”) + iaculor (“throw, dart”), from iaculum (“a missile, a dart”), from iaciō (“to throw, to hurl”).

Words formed from ejaculate

Questions about ejaculate

What does ejaculate mean?
Ejaculate means to eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
What is ejaculate in Hindi?
Ejaculate in Hindi is वीर्य स्खलन (vīrya skhalan). See Ejaculate meaning in Hindi.
How do you use ejaculate in a sentence?
"We're not going to use magic?" Ron ejaculated loudly.
What part of speech is ejaculate?
Ejaculate can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce ejaculate?
Ejaculate is pronounced /ɪˈdʒæk.jʊ.leɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of ejaculate?
The past tense of ejaculate is ejaculated.

Words near ejaculate in the dictionary

  1. Eiza
  2. eizel
  3. eizels
  4. Eišiškės
  5. EJ
  6. ejaculate
  7. ejaculate and evacuate
  8. ejaculated
  9. ejaculated and evacuated
  10. ejaculates
  11. ejaculates and evacuates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ejaculate (page history and authors); ejaculate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ejaculate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ejaculate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ejaculate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); छोल्नु (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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